Passenger-register.



7 Patented June 27, I899. 0. C ALSPAUG'H. PASSENGER REGISTER.

(Apphcamon filed Dec 8 1897) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

INVENTOI? (No Model.)

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No. 627,839. Patented June 27, I899.

0. C. ALSPAUGH.

PASSENGER REGISTER.

(Application filed Dec. 3, 1897.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-SheefZ.

W/ TNE SSE 8 /N VENTOI? UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

ORLANDO O. ALSPAUGH, OF NEWTON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DON KINNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

PASSENGER-REGISTER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 627,839, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed December 3, 1897. derial No. 660,649. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Beit known that I, ORLANDO C. ALSPAUGH, of Newton, in the county of Harvey and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Passenger-Register, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This'invention relates to devices for automatically registering the number of miles and fractions thereof that a seat of a railway-car has been occupied by a passenger, thus fur nishing the managers of the road with the mileage earnings of a train and enabling them to check and correct any shortage or errors in remittances from train conductors. The device will also have a tendency to prevent a passenger from occupying two or more seats with baggage, &c., and it will also indicate the length oftime a seat has been occupied.

I will describe a passenger-register embodyzo ing my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Figure l is a vertical section of a portion of a car, showing myinvention as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a seat and showing its connection with the registering mechanism. Fig. 3 is a front view of a registering device and showing the operating connections. Fig. 4 is a section substantially on the line l 4 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 shows a por- 0 tion of driving mechanism employed.

It is to be understood that there will be a registering device at each seat of a car, and all of the registering devices work independent of each other and being inclosed in 3. cas- 5 ing are beyond the manipulation of any one on the car and entirely automatic in action.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a shaft extending transversely of the car and underneath the same and having bearings in hangers 2, secured to the bottom of the car. Mounted on the shaft 1 near its center are two bevel-gears 3 4C. These bevel-gears engage with a gear-wheel 5 on the upper end of a vertical shaft 6, which has a worm-wheel 7 5 at its lower end engaging with a worm 8 on the car-axle 9. The shaft 6 is designed to have a vertical movement relatively to the worm-wheel 7 to compensate for the up and down movements of the car-body relatively to the truck. I have here shown the shaft 6 as passed loosely through the wheel 7 and having a feather 1O engaging in a groove in the wheel.

The bevel-gears 8 and 4B are each provided with a dog 11, designed to engage in notches formed in the shaft 1. The dogs 11 are extended in the same direction, and therefore the shaft 1 will be rotated through the medium of but one of the double gears, depending upon the direction in which the car is mov 6o ing. For instance, when the car is traveling in one direction the bevel-gear 3 by engaging its'dog with the shaft will rotate the shaft, and the bevel-gear 4 will rotate loosely on the shaft. Then the car is traveling in the opposite direction, the wheel 4 will transmit motion to the shaft 1 and the gear-Wheel3 will rotate loosely thereon. The object of providing the two wheels, as described, is to rotate the shaft in one direction only, notwithstand- 7o ing the direction in which the car may be traveling. e

The ends of. the shaft 1 are provided with bevel-gears 12, meshing with bevel-gears 13 on shafts 14:, which extend upward through the bottom of the car and are provided at the upper end with a bevel-gear 15, meshing with a bevel-gear 16 on a shaft 17, extended longitudinally of the car, one at each side.

Arranged on the shaft 17 adjacent to each seat is a gearwheel 18, designed to be engaged by a gear-wheel 19 onthe lower end of a shaft 20, which extends upward and connects with registering mechanismarranged in a box 21. This registering mechanism consists of ordinary consecutive numbering wheels, and it is deem ed unnecessary to show 7 it in detail herein. The shaft 20 extends through a longitudinally-sliding bar 22, arranged over the shaft 1.7. The bar 22 is designed to be moved longitudinally to place the gear 19 in connection with the gear 18, and to move the bar I employ a spring 23, abutting at one end against a shoulder on the bar and at the other end against a guide 24:. The 5 sliding bar is held in position with the gear 19 out of engagement with the gear 18 by means of a swinging latch 25, having a hook end engaging with a wall of a notch 26, formed in the slide-bar 22.

Connected to the springs 27 of a seat and below the cushion is a plate or disk 28, hav- IOO ing a lug on its under side pivotally connected to a horizontally-disposed member of an angle-lever 29, pivoted to the frame of the seat. From the other member of the anglelever a rod 30 extends to a connection with a horizontally-swinging angle-lever 31, which has a pivotal connection with a push-rod 32, having a downwardly-extended end 33, projected in a longitudinal slot 34, formed in the bar 22. To the downwardly-turned end 33 of the push-rod 32 is connected a lifting-block 35. This lifting-block is designed to move in a channel formed in the npperside of the bar 22 for the purpose of raising the latch 25 out of engagement with the bar. This liftingblock 35 has its free end beveled, as plainly shown in Fig. 3.

Connected to one side of the bar 22 is a rack 36, engaging with a pinion 37 on a rod 38, extended upward into the box 21 and having an indicator-board 39, which may be disclosed through an opening in the front wall of the box 21. On this rod 33 there is also a pin or projection 40, designed when the rod is rotated to push a finger 41 into engagement with the works of a clock 42, and thus start or stop the clock.

In operation the weight of a passenger occupying the seat will force the plate 28 downward, so as to rock the lever 29. This rocking of the lever 29 will draw upon the rod 30 and rock the angle-lever 31 in such a manner as to move the push-rod in a direction to engage the block 35 with the end of the latch 25, thus raising the latch, whereupon the spring 23 will force the bar 22 longitudinally to'engage the wheel 19 with the wheel 18, and thus the registering device will be put in operation and will remain in operation during the occupancy of the seat. This movement of the bar 22 will rotate the shaft 33 and cause the board 39 to be turned to show a colored side through the opening in the box 21, thus indicating to a conductor that a fare or ticket is to be collected from the occupant of a seat. As before stated, this turning of the rod 38 will also stop the clock. Thus the time will be indicated as to when the passenger first took the seat. The length of time of the occupancy of the seat may be ascertained by adding to the time indicated or when the clock stopped the time disclosed by a running clock or watch.

A device embodying my invention will give to a mechanical certaintythe number of miles and fractions thereof that aseat has been used while passingover any division. It can be so adjusted as to carry children of any desired weight without registering and without temporary adjustment. It can be attached to any kind of car-seat at a reasonable cost.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A registering device for a railway-car, comprising a consecutive numbering machine, a shaft for operating said machine, a gear-wheel. on the lower end of the said shaft, a longitudinally-movable bar through which said shaft extends, a spring for moving said bar in one direction, a latch for holding the bar in one position, means for raising said latch out of engagement with the bar, the

said means being actuated by the weight of" a passenger occupying a seat, a shaft extended longitudinally of the car and operated from an axle thereof, and a gear-wheel on said shaft with which the first-named gear-wheel is designed to be engaged, substantially as specified.

2. A passenger-register, comprising a consecutive-numbering device, a shaft for operating said device, a gear-wheel on the lower end ofsaid shaft, a longitudinally-movable bar through which said shaft extends, a shaft extended longitudinally of the car and oper* ated from an axle thereof, a gear-wheel on said shaft adapted to be engaged by the firstnamed gear-wheel, a spring for moving the bar in one direction, a latch for securing the bar in a position to hold the gear-wheel out of operative connection, a rack on said bar, a vertical rod having a pinion engaging said rack, an indicator on the upper end of said rod, and a projection on the rod adapted to move a part into engagement with a clockwork to stop the movement of the same, substantially as specified.

3. A passenger-register, comprising a consecutive-numbering machine,a shaft having connection with said machine to operate the same, a gear-wheel on the lower end of said shaft, a shaft extended horizontally of the car and having a gear-wheel with which the first-named gear-wheel is designed to be engaged, a longitudinally-movable bar through which the first-named shaft passes, a latch for engaging the said bar, a push-block movable on the upper side of the bar to force the latch out of engagement with said bar, a pushrod having connection with the block, a horizontally-swinging angle-lever to which said push-rod is connected, a vertically-swinging angle-lever pivoted to the frame of the carseat, a connection between the two angle-levers, and a plate arranged in the seat and having a pivotal connection with the horizontally-disposed member of the last-named anglelever, substantially as specified.

ORLANDO C. ALSPAUGH.

Witnesses:

JONA A. RUTH, FRANK NIoHoLsoN. 

